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."24But Hubbard's methods generally worked, and in late 1957 his campaign within Vancouver'sCatholic hierarchy won a rather astounding victory in the form of a notice issued by theCathedral of the Holy Rosary, which read, in part:We are aware of man's fallibility and will be protected in our studies by thatunderstanding and recognition of the First Cause of all created things thatgovern them.We therefore approach the study of these psychodelics andtheir influence on the mind of man anxious to discover whatever attributesthey possess respectfully evaluating their proper place in the Divine Economy.We humbly ask our Heavenly Mother the Virgin, help of all who call upon herto know and understand the true qualities of these psychodelics, the fullcapacities of man's noblest faculties and according to God's laws to use themfor the benefit of mankind here and in eternity.25Today the Catholic hierarchy of western Canada, tomorrow the first psychedeliccorporation Al's aspirations certainly weren't modest.But in this case the one precludedthe other.Although Myron Stolaroff had laid the groundwork perfectly, persuading Ampex'snew general manager to overlook Al's flaws and give LSD a chance, the result wasdisastrous.The general manager was Jewish.The last thing he wanted to do was look atpictures of Jesus Christ, but that's what Hubbard kept waving at him.We could continue in this vein for another hundred pages, describing all the little eddies thatsprang up in LSD's wake, and perhaps we should describe just one more, as it shows howfar afield the psychedelic message was ranging.In 1958 Gerald and Sidney Cohen traveledto Arizona to run a session for Henry Luce, founder and president of Time-Life, Inc., andLuce's wife, the cosmopolite Clare Booth Luce.At one point during the evening the tone-deaf and unflamboyant Luce wandered out into the yard, conducting an imaginarysymphony; and later on a short colloquy with God assured him all was well with theAmerican Century.The only problem that anyone could foresee was the possibility that somewhere down theroad LSD might turn out to be physically harmful.One couldn't forget Freud, who hadthought cocaine an innocuous panacea and had become addicted.But even if thishappened, it wouldn't be fatal: "If the psychologists and sociologists will define the ideal,"Huxley said, "the neurologists and pharmacologists can be relied upon to discover themeans whereby the ideal can be realized."26 LSD and mescaline were just the tip of thepsychedelic iceberg.59 The first new psychedelic to surface was DMT, an abbreviation of dimethyltriptamine.It wasintroduced into the Los Angeles scene by Oscar Janiger.Besides exploring the possibilities ofLSD, Janiger had been intrigued by the Osmond/Smythies thesis that psychoses might becaused by a metabolic malfunction of the adrenal system.Just as serendipity had led thetwo Englishmen to the molecular similarity between adrenalin and mescaline, Janiger hadstumbled across a similar connection between brain tryptamines and a South American vineused in shamanic rites called ayahuasca.The psychoactive element in ayahuasca wasdimethyltriptamine.Janiger searched the medical literature for any references to DMT.Hefound only two, both in Hungarian.Surmising that the Hungarians must have tried DMT andlived to write their monographs, Janiger had a local laboratory make a batch, and oneafternoon while he was alone in his office he filled a syringe and shot it into his arm "adangerously stupid, idiotic thing to do."27Compared to DMT, LSD was like a lazy summer picnic.Janiger felt like he was inside apinball machine, bombarded by flashing lights; clanging bells, infernal messages.There wasno insight.He was lost, disconnected, and when he later regained consciousness (the DMTlasted only thirty minutes) he was convinced he had been "totally stark raving crazy." Whichwas terrific! Perhaps he had found the elusive M factor.Janiger gave DMT to Bivens, who agreed that it was too much; then he called up Alan Wattsand bet him that he had a drug that could finally shut him up.Watts took the bet and theDMT, and for thirty minutes he lay there staring at Janiger, who kept repeating, "Alan, Alan,please say something.Talk to me.Your reputation is at stake."28 But Watts never said aword.The next time Al Hubbard passed through town, Janiger gave him a supply of DMT forhis leather bag and asked him to distribute it along the circuit."This isn't a gift," he said."Iwant reports back." Everyone who took DMT agreed that it was a hellish half hour, withabsolutely no redeeming qualities.The same couldn't be said, however, about psilocybin, which descended on the psychedelicscene like an eager debutante from a well-known society family, in this case, SandozPharmaceuticals.1"and suddenly I found myself giving birth to myself & " Proceedings, Josiah MacyFoundation Symposium, p.78.2 when you made contact & " Oscar Janiger intv.3 the room is breathing & why don't you climb down from there & " Janiger intv.4 without being a mathematician & " Anaïs Nin, Diary, vol.5, p.257.5 I was taken by surprise.This was no confused & though we have been using the availableresearch materials," Macy Symposisum, p.11.6 it is as though everything that bothered them & " Macy Symposium, p.12.7 the integrative experience & are all fused into a very meaningful episode & " Eisner andCohen, Psychotherapy with Lysergic Acid, p.533.8 he was the sparkplug & " Janiger intv.9 I have been born again & I found I was hiding behind all kinds of defenses & " GeoffreyWansell, Haunted Idol.10 we met two Beverly Hills psychiatrists & " Huxley, Selected Letters, p.881.11 our parties were meaningful and special & " Nin, Diary, Vol.6, p.333.60 12 you're fortunate enough to have a natural access & " Nin, op.cit., p.131.13 conform or else has become something of an eleventh commandment & " Robert LindneT, Must You Conform, p.167.'we may be very grateful that our opponents & " Gerald HeardCollection, UCLA.14 the man who comes back through the Door & " Huxley, Doors of Perception, p.79.15 to see if God was there & " Christopher Isherwood, My Guru and His Disciple, p.219.16 every occult and far-out subject under the sun & " Alan Watts, In My Own Way, p.123.17 highly improbable that a true spiritual experience & " Watts, Ibid., p.342.18 pervasive pure light & when are you coming back &.oops I'm off again & " David Ebin,The Drug Experience, pp.296 97.19 I thought you went to all these places & " Myron Stolaroff interview,20 radiating an enormous energy field & " Stolaroff interview,21 was the greatest discovery & " Stolaroff interview [ Pobierz caÅ‚ość w formacie PDF ]
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."24But Hubbard's methods generally worked, and in late 1957 his campaign within Vancouver'sCatholic hierarchy won a rather astounding victory in the form of a notice issued by theCathedral of the Holy Rosary, which read, in part:We are aware of man's fallibility and will be protected in our studies by thatunderstanding and recognition of the First Cause of all created things thatgovern them.We therefore approach the study of these psychodelics andtheir influence on the mind of man anxious to discover whatever attributesthey possess respectfully evaluating their proper place in the Divine Economy.We humbly ask our Heavenly Mother the Virgin, help of all who call upon herto know and understand the true qualities of these psychodelics, the fullcapacities of man's noblest faculties and according to God's laws to use themfor the benefit of mankind here and in eternity.25Today the Catholic hierarchy of western Canada, tomorrow the first psychedeliccorporation Al's aspirations certainly weren't modest.But in this case the one precludedthe other.Although Myron Stolaroff had laid the groundwork perfectly, persuading Ampex'snew general manager to overlook Al's flaws and give LSD a chance, the result wasdisastrous.The general manager was Jewish.The last thing he wanted to do was look atpictures of Jesus Christ, but that's what Hubbard kept waving at him.We could continue in this vein for another hundred pages, describing all the little eddies thatsprang up in LSD's wake, and perhaps we should describe just one more, as it shows howfar afield the psychedelic message was ranging.In 1958 Gerald and Sidney Cohen traveledto Arizona to run a session for Henry Luce, founder and president of Time-Life, Inc., andLuce's wife, the cosmopolite Clare Booth Luce.At one point during the evening the tone-deaf and unflamboyant Luce wandered out into the yard, conducting an imaginarysymphony; and later on a short colloquy with God assured him all was well with theAmerican Century.The only problem that anyone could foresee was the possibility that somewhere down theroad LSD might turn out to be physically harmful.One couldn't forget Freud, who hadthought cocaine an innocuous panacea and had become addicted.But even if thishappened, it wouldn't be fatal: "If the psychologists and sociologists will define the ideal,"Huxley said, "the neurologists and pharmacologists can be relied upon to discover themeans whereby the ideal can be realized."26 LSD and mescaline were just the tip of thepsychedelic iceberg.59 The first new psychedelic to surface was DMT, an abbreviation of dimethyltriptamine.It wasintroduced into the Los Angeles scene by Oscar Janiger.Besides exploring the possibilities ofLSD, Janiger had been intrigued by the Osmond/Smythies thesis that psychoses might becaused by a metabolic malfunction of the adrenal system.Just as serendipity had led thetwo Englishmen to the molecular similarity between adrenalin and mescaline, Janiger hadstumbled across a similar connection between brain tryptamines and a South American vineused in shamanic rites called ayahuasca.The psychoactive element in ayahuasca wasdimethyltriptamine.Janiger searched the medical literature for any references to DMT.Hefound only two, both in Hungarian.Surmising that the Hungarians must have tried DMT andlived to write their monographs, Janiger had a local laboratory make a batch, and oneafternoon while he was alone in his office he filled a syringe and shot it into his arm "adangerously stupid, idiotic thing to do."27Compared to DMT, LSD was like a lazy summer picnic.Janiger felt like he was inside apinball machine, bombarded by flashing lights; clanging bells, infernal messages.There wasno insight.He was lost, disconnected, and when he later regained consciousness (the DMTlasted only thirty minutes) he was convinced he had been "totally stark raving crazy." Whichwas terrific! Perhaps he had found the elusive M factor.Janiger gave DMT to Bivens, who agreed that it was too much; then he called up Alan Wattsand bet him that he had a drug that could finally shut him up.Watts took the bet and theDMT, and for thirty minutes he lay there staring at Janiger, who kept repeating, "Alan, Alan,please say something.Talk to me.Your reputation is at stake."28 But Watts never said aword.The next time Al Hubbard passed through town, Janiger gave him a supply of DMT forhis leather bag and asked him to distribute it along the circuit."This isn't a gift," he said."Iwant reports back." Everyone who took DMT agreed that it was a hellish half hour, withabsolutely no redeeming qualities.The same couldn't be said, however, about psilocybin, which descended on the psychedelicscene like an eager debutante from a well-known society family, in this case, SandozPharmaceuticals.1"and suddenly I found myself giving birth to myself & " Proceedings, Josiah MacyFoundation Symposium, p.78.2 when you made contact & " Oscar Janiger intv.3 the room is breathing & why don't you climb down from there & " Janiger intv.4 without being a mathematician & " Anaïs Nin, Diary, vol.5, p.257.5 I was taken by surprise.This was no confused & though we have been using the availableresearch materials," Macy Symposisum, p.11.6 it is as though everything that bothered them & " Macy Symposium, p.12.7 the integrative experience & are all fused into a very meaningful episode & " Eisner andCohen, Psychotherapy with Lysergic Acid, p.533.8 he was the sparkplug & " Janiger intv.9 I have been born again & I found I was hiding behind all kinds of defenses & " GeoffreyWansell, Haunted Idol.10 we met two Beverly Hills psychiatrists & " Huxley, Selected Letters, p.881.11 our parties were meaningful and special & " Nin, Diary, Vol.6, p.333.60 12 you're fortunate enough to have a natural access & " Nin, op.cit., p.131.13 conform or else has become something of an eleventh commandment & " Robert LindneT, Must You Conform, p.167.'we may be very grateful that our opponents & " Gerald HeardCollection, UCLA.14 the man who comes back through the Door & " Huxley, Doors of Perception, p.79.15 to see if God was there & " Christopher Isherwood, My Guru and His Disciple, p.219.16 every occult and far-out subject under the sun & " Alan Watts, In My Own Way, p.123.17 highly improbable that a true spiritual experience & " Watts, Ibid., p.342.18 pervasive pure light & when are you coming back &.oops I'm off again & " David Ebin,The Drug Experience, pp.296 97.19 I thought you went to all these places & " Myron Stolaroff interview,20 radiating an enormous energy field & " Stolaroff interview,21 was the greatest discovery & " Stolaroff interview [ Pobierz caÅ‚ość w formacie PDF ]